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The mayor of Bialystok at the unveiling of a memorial plaque commemorating the ghetto uprisers

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Representatives of the Union of Jewish Authors attending a memorial assembly in a Jewish cemetery in Bialystok After World War II

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Memorial to 3 who were killed by the Germans

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Polish soldiers in an honor guard beside a memorial monument to the fallen of the Bialystok ghetto

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Tema Schneiderman, a courier in the Jewish underground in the Bialystok ghetto with two of friends before the war

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Mordechai Tenenbaum - Tamaroff ( leader of the Bialystok ghetto uprising) and Nechama Eisenstein in 1934

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Zipora Birmann and Mordechai Tenenbaum, members of the Jewish underground in the Bialystok ghetto, with friends.

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Lag BaOmer celebration in Bialystok before the war

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Tema Schneiderman with her friends Nechama Eisenstein (right) and Esti.

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Shimon Datner standing beside the well which hid the entrance to the underground's bunker at 7 Chmielna Street in the Bialystok ghetto.

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A road sign

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Meyer Shapiro seated on right, wife Ida.  Oldest child standing behind, Reisel Shapiro (my grandmother).  Boy on right is Moshe Zimmerman.  Three little girls, names unknown.  Circa 1910.  Bialystok

Susan Becker
Golden, Colorado

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Bialystok before 1939

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Ciepla Street in the Bialystok ghetto, during the winter.

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The funeral of four members of a kibbutz (communal group) of the Gordonia youth movement in Bialystok, who were murdered on a train after the war

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A ceremony in School No. 31 in Bialystok, Poland.


After World War II

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members of He Chaluts movement in Bialystok, dancing the hora.

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Members of the pioneering training commune (kibbutz hachshara) of the He - Chaluts movement in Bialystok, who worked as porters at a train station

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The yard of the pioneering training commune

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Members of the pioneering training commune (kibbutz hachshara) of the HaChaluts movement in Bialystok.

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members of .HeChaluts movement in Bialystok.

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Zionist youth in Bialystok

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The market street in Bialystok

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Jews in a square in Bialystok on a Saturday

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Jewish owned shops before the war

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The marketplace in Bialystok

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The bodies of Jews who were murdered in a pogrom in Bialystok on July 30, 1905

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A Jewish couple in Bialystok in 1880.

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c 1900 Bialystok

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The administration of the Leatherworkers' Craftsmen's Union in Bialystok.

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A group of young Jews in Bialystok, active in the anarchist movement.

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c 1905 Two members of the Bund in Bialystok.

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Elementary school children in Bialystok who staged the opera "Between the Flowers."

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the great synagogue

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Young Jews in a demonstration on Labor Day, May 1, 1936, in Bialystok

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Market place

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A street in the Jewish quarter of Bialystok.

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A street in Bialystok.

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The entrance gate to the Jewish cemetery in Bialystok which operated until WWII.

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"Beis Yaakov" school,

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Date pub. Oct. 26, 1924
City Bialystok
Photographer Kacyzne, Alter
A Jew (right, holding a key) and a Gentile, sitting together on a stoop.

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Date pub. Oct. 26, 1924
City Bialystok
Photographer Kacyzne, Alter

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Jewish textile workers after work
Date pub. Oct. 26, 1924
City Bialystok
Photographer Kacyzne, Alter

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Date pub. Oct. 26, 1924
City Bialystok
Photographer Kacyzne, Alter

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From the records of Dora Vegotsky
Pitkowsky, mother of Sarah Platt,
aunt of Edith Vegotsky Taylor, Co-coordinator of the Ruzhany Yizkor Project.

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From the records of Dora Vegotsky
Pitkowsky, mother of Sarah Platt,
aunt of Edith Vegotsky Taylor, Co-coordinator of the Ruzhany Yizkor Project.

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Jewish partisans in a forest near the town of Bialystok, Poland.

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Chasia Bronstein Balitzka was born in Grodno in 1921. During the ho;ocaust she escaped from Grodno to Bialistok and became a resistance fighter in the ghetto. She survived and came to Israel. she passed away in 2011 

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1945. Jewish Women who fought the Nazis in the ghetto and survived. Lisa Czapnik center.

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Lisa Czapnik

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My great-grandmother's brother Moshe Wiernik, his granddaughter Luba Munk
These photos were mailed to my grandfather in Ohio in 1929 and then my father got them when my uncle died. All but Moshe were living in Bialystok (and ended up in the Bialystok Ghetto) and Moshe lived in Grajewo, Poland. Please don't forget them.
Jeanne Swack

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Rifka Wiernik Munk (daughter of Moshe) and her husband Yisroel Munk (they are the parents of Luba and they also had a boy Yudel after the photo was taken). These photos were mailed to my grandfather in Ohio in 1929 and then my father got them when my uncle died. All but Moshe were living in Bialystok (and ended up in the Bialystok Ghetto) and Moshe lived in Grajewo, Poland. Please don't forget them.
Jeanne Swack

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Mordekhai Burshtain was born in Poland. He was an uppers cutter/tailor. Prior to WWII he lived in Bialystok, Poland.

Mordekhai was murdered in the Shoah. 

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Rifka Ostrinski (nee Okon), and her husband, Enoch Ostrinski. picture submitted by Dan kastrul from his grandmother's album  

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Rifka Ostrinski (nee Okon), and her husband, Enoch Ostrinski. with children Avraham and Leah. The family perished in the Holocaust